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good evening. i'm bret baier. fireworks on capitol hill as the president's nominee as director of national intelligence faces bipartisan scrutiny during her confirmation hearing. bring you there. then another fiery confirmation battle at the capitol. the president's pick to lead the fbi. defense past and present statements. chaos unfolds during the release of israeli hostages. >> bret: but, first, breaking tonight officials confirm that all 67 people aboard the two aircraft that collided mid-air just outside the nation's capitol are dead. the coalition happening late wednesday when an army black hawk helicopter flew into the path of an american airlines flight while it was attempting to land at the ronald reagan national airport. emergency crews have been working tirelessly to recover the bodies of those killed as well as the wreckage as federal investigators try to piece together the moments before that collision. correspondent mark meredith is just outside the cash site in

washington. good evening, mark? >> mark: bret, good evening to you. way too early to know what led to last night's air collision. they are investigating what happened with the 67 people who were killed as they ended up here on the river last night. we know that they are still looking for the black boxes on both aircraft. and that as of right now. planes are allowed to land and take off from reagan airport, even though there is still a recovery operation underway. >> 8:47 p.m. wednesday, cameras facing reagan national airport captured the moment an american airlines regional jet collided with the u.s. army helicopter. just as the jet was seconds away from landing. >> we're here to assure the american people that we are going to leave no stone unturned in this investigation. >> the accident, america's deadliest since february 2009, when a regional jet crashed in buffalo, new york is sparking new questions about congestion, communications, and the

stability of the national air traffic system. radio traffic captured controllers instructing the chopper to avoid the plane landing nearby. >> 33. in flight. did you see that? >> the "new york times" reports there was one air traffic controller doing the job of two people reportedly handing both planes and helicopters. investigators say that is under review but not confirmed. >> our investigators are continuing to pull all that information. their personnel records, their files, where they were at, whether they were fatigued. >> today, top government officials including sean duffy, the newly confirmed transportation secretary, vowed accountability. >> when americans take off in airplanes, they should expect to land at their destination. that didn't happen yesterday. that's unacceptable. and so we will not accept excuses. >> flight 5342 left wichita with 64 people on board including four crew members. the military helicopter involved is the core 360.

three crew members on board. we don't need any more flights in airspace. we need to relieve the congestion i think the ntsb will look very, very carefully at them. >> at reagan airport flights resumed before lunch, but more than 500 flights were canceled just today. as passengers are still coming to grips with the disaster. >> kind of worried last night. already a nervous flier so it made me nervous. >> tonight, american airlines has dispatched a crisis team to help with the victims' families. ceo has made his way here to washington. members of congress are already demanding accountability. today we saw president trump put in place a new acting administrator of the faa as this investigation gets underway and, bret, we are told a preliminary report on what happened is still at least a month away. bret? >> bret: mark meredith outside the crash site. mark, thanks. president trump is calling the deadly air disaster an hour of anguish for our country.

the president and members of his cabinet briefed white house reporters today but it quickly turned confrontational after the president placed blame, pointing the finger at policies of his predecessor's. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that story live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. president trump said tonight he believes this crash was preventable. but did he not call to restrict the number of flights out of dca given the frequent military activity in that area. he said problems can be prevented with the right people. he started by appointing a new acting faa administrator. >> jacqui: what began as a somber update. >> i would like to request a moment of silence for the victims and their families, please. >> jacqui: quickly turned political. president trump zeroing in on dei hiring by former democratic presidents for key federal jobs. >> the faa is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe, intellectual disabilities. psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions

under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiatives. >> biden's faa exceed its goal in fiscal year 2023 according to the annual report to the faa office of civil rights, more than 16% of the agency's hires had a disability. 2% had a so-called targeted disability involving hearing, vision, missing you exinstruments, paralysis, enis he leprosy or severe intellectual or psychiatric disabilities. most hirees for engineering. 3.8% for air traffic control. trump blamed pete buttigieg. >> he ran his city into the ground and is he a disaster now. he just got a good line of bull [bleep] >> who answered despicable as families grieve families should be leading not lying. put safety first, grew air traffic control and zero crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. >> outrage from democrats. >> just turns your stomach. >> it was just grotesque the way he immediately politicized. i think he owes the american

people an apology. >> president later said he wasn't sure if dei played a role in the crash but believes incompetence may have. >> are you aware of any performance issues or disciplinary actions that were taken against anyone who was working the tower last night or flying a plane? >> no, no. and i hope that's not the case in this case but certainly over the years it's been the case. and it's the case with respect to close calls. >> trump signed a presidential memorandum to have the faa assess the quote damage done by biden's woke policies and ensure future hiring is based on merit. >> we don't care what race they are. we want the most competent people, especially in those positions. >> and the faa policy under former president biden said people with disabilities hired into mission critical occupations must meet the same qualifications as other applicants. president trump said tonight he does plan to meet with the victim families soon. he also made arrangements to return the bodies of russians who died in that crash to their country with no air travel

between the u.s. and russia, bret. >> bret: the president was asked if he had spoken with vladimir putin. he said not about this. and that obviously raised some eyebrows. what else do we know? >> jacqui: not too much more, bret. in the oval office tonight, the president refused to say when he last spoke with vladimir putin. a white house official indicated earlier today it has not been since taking office. but the white house has not read out any putin-trump calls. national security adviser mike waltz said recently that plans are underway for the two to connect soon, bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, jacqui, thank you. we have new details about the passengers and crew members of the american airlines flight and the military black hawk helicopter. correspondent griff jenkins reports from reagan national airport. >> cadet ryan o'hara was the black hawk's crew chief, a husband and father. his georgia high school remembered his time in junior rotc and on the rifle team. sam lilly was flight 5342 first

officer. weighs planning his wedding and began flying in 2019 like his army veteran father. his crew included ian epstein, a montreal native. his family says the husband, father and step-father loved being a flight attendant because he truly enjoyed traveling and meeting new people. passenger wendy shaffer was shields and bennett's mother. her husband nate calls her a truly amazing woman through and through. u.s. figure skating says 14 members of its team were also on board. among them coaches, the married couple were the 1994 pairs world championships and represented their native russia in two olympics decades most recently at the skating club of austin. >> this will have long reaching impacts for our skating community. when you lose coaches like this. you lose the future of the sport. >> the club says two of their students were on board.

16-year-old was traveling with his mother mollie and gina hahn also 16 was with her mother jen. they are remembered as remarkably talented competitors once worthy of sharing the ice with olympians. >> we have been through the same thing that, training, that rigorous schedule of falling over and over and somehow picking yourself back up. >> it's a close, tight bond. and i think for all of us we have lost family. >> and, bret, as we await more names to be released. we are learning many victims were from the surrounding virginia area. including another coach skyia who skated for the ussr team three students who attended local fairfax county public schools traveling with their parents and finally the steam fitters union says that five of its members were passengers aboard flight 5342.

bret? >> bret: so sad, griff jenkins live at reagan national. i will discuss the investigation into the collision with senator tim kaine later in the show. ♪ >> bret: president trump's pick to lead the intelligence community process for any in his administration at least to far. former congresswoman tulsi gabbard, nominee for director of national intention facing bipartisan criticism over positions on russia, syria, and national security leaks chad pergram says all about the math. capitol hill. >> bret, good evening, gabbard is believed to be the most endangered nominee of all. up to six republicans could have concerns about gabbard. she is trying to flip doubts tos

to yes. >> what will you say to republican skeptics? anything that you will extend? >> into the hearing. >> chad: one g.o.p. senator on the fence is susan collins of maine a swing vote on many nominees and sits on the intelligence committee. opposition from collins could block gabbard's nomination from hitting the floor. >> i have not made a final decision. she responded well to my questions during testimony gabbard said putin was responsible. she once said moscow was diswrowfd glenn the conflict. pushed a pardon for edward snowden. he ripped off intelligence records and fled to russia. bipartisan concern that gabbard would not guard secrets. that's why senators tangled with gabbard about snowden. >> do you believe, as the chairman of this committee believe, as the vast majority of members of our intelligence

agencies believe that edward snowden was a traitor to the united states of america? >> senator, confirmed. >> when the rubber hits the road. this is. >> i will work with you to make sure. >> this is not a moment for social media. >> gabbard also supports a key foreign spy program. she once argued it violated privacy rights. also the nomination of us are vogt to become budget director heads to the floor. the move over grants and loans. and the senate confirms doug burgum as secretary of the interior tonight. that's going to start here in about three minutes, bret. back to you. >> bret: okay. weave will follow that and bring it to you live here on "special report." chad, thank you. stocks were up today over key tech earnings and data. the dow gaining 169. the s&p 500 added 32. the nasdaq jumped 49. up next, president trump's fbi nominee, kash patel and hhs nominee r.f.k. jr. face a barrage of questions about some

of their past statements. we will have live reports. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around this country are covering tonight. wjzy in charlotte as federal prosecutors are investigating whether veteran nba player manipulated his plays part of illegal sports betting scheme. the "wall street journal" reports says the inquiry is part of a wider government probe into a sprawling ring of people who allegedly rigged games across the sport's landscape. he has not been charged with a crime or accused of wrongdoing. fox 4 in dallas where heavy rainfall overnight into this morning at the dallas-fort worth airport caused a significant flooding. 2.8 inches of rain set a daily record for january 29th. more than 330 flights were delayed. more than 160 others canceled by the afternoon at dfw. this is a live look at los angeles from our affiliate fox 11. some of the biggest names in music will come together this

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♪ >> bret: president trump's nominee to lead the federal bureau of investigation also facing intense scrutiny today. democrats on the judiciary committee grilling kash patel during his confirmation hearing over his qualifications. the possible weaponization of government and past statements on gutting the fbi. correspondent david spunt has the story from capitol hill. >> don't go over there and burn down that agency. did you go over there and lift it up. >> tough questions for fbi director nominee kash patel, hand picked by president trump to lead a bureau that is no stranger to controversy. >> either you're going to run your agency or the agency is going to run you. >> patel repeatedly pressed on past comments. >> i would shut down the fbi

hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> did he say that the headquarters should be shut down? >> mr. chair. >> i deserve an answer to that question. >> patel, a former public defender and government official under the first trump administration, responded this and other criticisms were, quote: false accusations and mischaracterizations. >> the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the fbi. >> he says his focus will be on curbing crime. >> priority of the fbi, if i'm confirmed, will be to ensure that our communities are protected and safeguarded and our children have parks to play in and not needles to walk over. >> patel deflected criticism over past provocative statements suggesting he wanted to purge anti-trump deep state officials in the government. he side stepped a direct answer as to whether joe biden won the 2020 election only saying biden was the certified president. he was to clarify his views on

january 6th. >> there can never be a tolerance for violence against law enforcement. >> and he said this, just one week after president trump granted clemency to more than 1500 involved in the january 6th capitol attack. >> i do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement. >> republicans coming to his aid, asking about past bureau controversies, including the crossfire hurricane probe, the basis for the trump-russia narrative patel helped expose. >> are those days over in the fbi, you hope? >> if they are not? they will be. >> patel also said he would look into those people that were behind that controversial fbi richmond field office memo from 2023 that used the word extremist in the same phrase as catholic parishioners. bret? >> bret: david spunt live in the hearing room, david, thanks. day two in the hot seat for robert f. kennedy jr. president trump's pick to run

the department of health and human services. once again defending past statements and trying to clarify his position on vaccines for the senators. correspondent alexandria hoff has details from washington. good evening, alex. >> good evening, bret. kennedy's three and a half hour hearing yesterday was tense no. doubt about that. today it got emotional. >> almost all the members of this panel are exempting -- including yourself accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. >> oh no, no. >> not one nickel of pac money from the pharmaceuticals it came from workers. >> i am the proud mother of a 36-year-old young man with severe cerebral palsy so please do not suggest that anybody in this body of either political party doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is. >> we believe so. we are not going to have an open mind to study these things. >> vaccines once again at the center of questioning assured the senate help committee he would not enter the job of

health and human services secretary with any preordained biases. >> i'm going to empower the scientists at hhs to do their job and make sure that we have good science that's evidence-based and replicatable. >> supporters were there to cheer kennedy on as his final hearing wrapped. but, republicans committee chair, bill cassidy a physician and could be a key confirmation vote said is he still struggling with this nomination. >> does a 70-year-old man, 71-year-old man who spent decades criticizing vaccines and whose ho is financially vested in finding fault with vaccines can he change his attitudes and approach now that he will have the most important position influencing vaccine policy in the united states? >> now, if confirmed, kennedy announced today that he plans to appoint the first native american to serve as assistant hhs secretary. bret? >> bret: alex, thank you.

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>> breaking tonight. we are learning more details about the timeline of events that led to that collision of the military helicopter and the american airlines jet, chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has that part of the story live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. >> jennifer: good evening, bret. the co-pilot of the black hawk

army helicopter was a female pilot with 500 hours of flying time. the instructor who was also being evaluated on this routine nighttime training mission had logged over 1,000 hours. defense secretary pete hegseth described them as fairly experienced. he ordered a 48-hour operational pause for the army aviation battalion involved in the crash. >> three soldiers, young captain, staff sergeant, and cw 2, chief warrant officer on a routine annual retraining of night flights on a standard corridor for continuity of government mission. i think the president is right. there was some sort of elevation issue. general. >> jennifer: the flight ceiling for helicopters in the d.c. capitol region is 200 feet. jonathan, the army aviation director at chief of staff told reporters the pilots were familiar with the route and area and the crew chief had been with the unit for some time. the president's choice for army

secretary was asked about a 2024 army aviation report that suggested last year had the most severe aviation incidents for the army in more than 10 years. >> i think we might need to look at where's an appropriate time to take training risks and it may not be near an airport like reagan. >> officials say there was no sign of terrorism or criminality. the black hawk helicopter took off from fort belvoir the pilots had night vision goggles on board but it's not clear whether ambient light may have confused them and caused them to look at the wrong plane. a lot of attention will now be paid to the elevation of the -- of the aircraft as well as communications with the reagan national airport's control chief there. bret, back to you. >> bret: jennifer griffin, thank you. >> we'll find out how this disaster occurred and we will ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. my administration will set the

highest possible bar for aviation safety. >> there's a natural human response to start grasping for answers but right now it's so early. >> yeah. >> we have to let this investigation play out. >> bret: joining us now to discuss the air tragedy over washington and today's confirmation hearings as well, virginia senator tim kaine. senator, thanks for being here on a very tough day for the entire community of virginia, maryland, d.c., your thoughts 30,000 feet here about this tragedy? >> well, bret, it is just awful. you know, i was over at the airport about 6:30 this morning for a couple hours. so, first, the tremendous sorrow for the 67 families who have lost loved ones, the three soldiers, the four crew members, the 60 passengers. the lists are going to start fully coming out and we'll all know people on that list. because the d.c. community, that's a big metro area. but we're all connected. so that is very tragic. tremendous gratitude for these

first responders. i mean, as you know, out in the water last night. ice on the water. doing this very complicated rescue and now recovery effort, very, very -- really praise that work. but there's a lot of questions. and the national transportation safety board, they have a good track record of getting to the bottom of it. some facts are emerging already that, you know, are pointing the way to questions that need to be asked but we don't yet fully know the answers. to that point the a.p. saying the staffing was not normal air traffic control tower according to a report by the faa that was obtained by the associated press reported saying one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash. to your point, we don't have a definitive word from the ntsb and won't probably for a few weeks. but senator, you have been concerned about reagan national particularly for years. >> yes. >> tell us about that and why.

>> well, bret, you know this airport but for those who don't, it's a really small footprint. it was built very close to downtown washington on an acreage and with a runway structure that was estimated to be able to serve 50 million passengers a year in and out of that airport. we well now over. our congressional colleagues, this is an important city, air traffic into the city is important but we have three airports. we have reagan national, we have dulles and baltimore, washington international. we need to spread the traffic among these airports rather than have such congestion into reagan national. the other thing about reagan national is when you are right there there is a lot of military flights. it is a very complicated and congested airspace more complicated after 9/11 with certain security details. so, yes, last march we had a

bill before the senate there was an effort to add more flights into an already overburdened runway that we fought very hard against and we brought up our concern that an event like this would happen and, you know, when i got the news last night. i -- i don't know. i haven't been as angry as i have been in a very long time we don't know that as the factor. the faa suggests that shortages in air traffic control, which is not just at reagan national but they have been national level shortages may have contributed. normally they would have one person in the tower monitoring hilos. another person working more than one person working on planes. the person that was doing the hilo monitoring last night and the plane monitoring it was one individual but they often use different frequencies to talk to the pilots of the different vehicles. could that have been a factor in the ntsb will tell us whether it was. >> bret: are you concerned about the hiring of air traffic

controllers? >> yes. yes. absolutely. and that was, again, the funny thing, bret, you know, legislation can have a good piece and a bad piece. what we did in the faa reauthorization last year was designed to deal with some of these critical shortages and i believe we made progress from march until now. so that was a good part of the bill. but the addition of even more traffic into reagan national was a bad part of the bill. i ended up wanting to support the bill but i opposed it over this jamming more flights into reagan national. again, i have this deep concern that i have had for years but i do have to say whether that concern was a factor last night or not, the ntsb, they will do a good job and give us the answer to that question. >> bret: yeah, secretary of transportation sean duffy saying they are going to get to the bottom of it and try to improve things and work with you all on capitol hill as that investigation continues. i want to talk about capitol hill. obviously it's the center of the universe for confirmation hearings. have you had some tough

questioning for various nominees. can you see yourself getting if oa yes for some of the trump nominees? >> yeah, bret. i have already voted yes on a number. in fact, i voted for secretary of transportation duffy. i met him at 6:30 in the airport this morning. 24 hours on the job and already dealing with this tough, tough emergency. i voted for secretary burgum. we had his confirmation vote. or maybe actually the final vote is later tonight. i'm voting yes for him for secretary of the interior. voted marco rubio for secretary of state. there will be others i expect to vote yes on there will be some others that i will probably vote no on. >> bret: senator, we appreciate your time. this is a big issue and i know you are right in the middle of it. thanks for coming on. >> always good to be with you, bret. >> bret: former congressman mike rogers says he is strongly considering another republican bid for the michigan u.s. senate seat just months after he narrowly lost to democrat alissa

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♪ ♪ there are new concerns tonight over the stability of the cease-fire between israel and hamas after scuffles erupted during the release of israeli hostages today. the chaos led israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to order a delay in the release of palestinian prisoners. chief foreign correspondent trey yingst is in tel aviv with the latest. >> chaotic crowds scream and jeer as israeli hostages are paraded through the gaza strip. hamas putting on another propaganda show of force as they handed over three israeli and fivthai citizens to the red cro. emotional reunions as three united with loved ones before being flown by helicopter to a hospital in central israel. gotti was one of the oldest people taken hostage on october 7th at 79 years old. his partner was accidently killed by idf helicopter during the attack.

>> receiving the return captives have consisted of professional, sensitive and comprehensive medical and psychological supportive system. after the emotional reunions the returned captives medical assessments. >> today's hostages were exchanged for 110 palestinian prisoners including a high level militant who was the former head of the jeanine battalion with today's release the number of hostages remaining in gaza 82. 35 are believed to be dead. the next group of three is scheduled to be released on saturday. president trump's middle east envoy steve witkoff is in israel today and visited hostage square as the exchange was taking place. witkoff also visited gaza and is meeting with top officials including prime minister netanyahu to discuss phase 2 of the cease-fire deal. >> showing wonderful how joy us the people of israel are. >> next week prime minister netanyahu will travel onto

washington, d.c. where he will be the first foreign leader to visit president trump since the new administration took office. bret? >> bret: trey yingst in tel aviv. thank you. the two nasa shah astronauts stuck at the international space station took first walk after arriving. commander suni williams and butch wilmore removed broken antenna and wiped the station's exeter forefor evidence of microbes. the pair have been stranded at the iss since last june. president trump has asked elon musk to get them down. up next, the panel on today's cabinet confirmation hearings plus the politics and the tragedy around the deadly air disaster over washington. first, beyond our borders tonight. a nighttime russian drone attack kills at least six people and wounds nine others at an apartment building in northeast ukraine. russia launched more than 08 drones overnight, according to ukrainian officials. panama's president says there will be no negotiations with the united states over ownership of

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>> bret: breaking news from capitol hill, doug burgum has received confirmation from the u.s. senate the vote 79-16. still open but he has the votes to be confirmed. that means north dakota governor will become the interior secretary for the trump administration democratic support on the floor. >> we want fast confirmations and the democrats, as you know are doing everything they can to delay him.

>> my pot president and you and the american people is this i will do my best to find the truth no matter where it leads. >> the public trust can only be restored if there is full transparency. i'm committed to that full transparency. >> many in the hearing yesterday have claimed that i'm anti-vaccine and anti-industry. well, i'm neither. i'm pro-safety. i'm pro-good science. >> some of those hearings pretty fiery. meantime those nominees defending. kash patel for the fbi in the "wall street journal" how i will rebuild public trust in the fbi. two foundational steps are necessary to rebuild public confidence in the fbi first let cops be cops. leadership means supporting agents in their mission to apprehend criminals and protect our citizens and, second, transparency is essential. members of congress have hundreds of unanswered requests to the fbi. if confirmed i will be a strong advocate for congressional oversight. let's start there with our panel. trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina.

leslie marshall, democratic strategist and josh kraushaar fox news radio political analyst. josh, your assessment of let's start with kash patel, how that hearing went today and his performance. obviously some of the questioning was fiery as i mentioned. >> these are all some of the toughest hearings from trump's cabinet nominees the fbi director in the case of kash patel. look, patel really tried to soften his image. he portrayed himself as the son of immigrants, a rags to riches story. he pledged to follow the rule of law. even criticized the sublee, the division by president trump to pardon all of the january 6th rioters. but, look, there was a lot of comments he made in the past. there is a lot of incendiary rhetoric he has offered that democrats really honed in on. republicans it sounds like he going to have the support in the committee worries about

maintaining that bipartisan support. you could hear the hostility in a lot of the questioning. he has made incendiary comments come back to bite him. of the three nominees on the hot seat today patel is in the best position. >> bret: trey gowdy you come to this panel with a little bit of a bias on this particular nominee and that your endorsement of him early on set the table for this. how did you think he did today and where do you think this stands? >> i thought he acquitted himself very, very well. he showed independence. hard to disagree with a person nominated for a position. he was pretty clear he would not have issued some of those pardons. i love josh. josh described kash in a certain way. that is the only kash that i have ever known. the one that you saw today is the one that i worked with. the one that issued incendiary comments, that's not the guy

that i worked with. the one we had today is the one that ratcliffe and i worked with for two years. i think he will be confirmed. democrats know it. tell by durbin let's work together on fentanyl. you don't work together if you are not the fbi director. so he will be confirmed. >> bret: tulsi gabbard, leslie, as chad pergram mentioned perhaps the most controversial and question whether republican also line up behind her nomination for director of national intelligence. she was asked numerous times about edward snowden. take a listen. >> do you still think edward snowden is brave? >> mr. vice chairman, edward snowden broke the law. i do not agree with or support with you will after the information and intelligence that he released nor the way in which he did it. >> i want to make certain that in no way does russia get a pass in either your mind or your heart or in any policy recommendation you would make or not make.

>> senator, i'm offended by the question because my sole focus commitment and responsibility is about our own nation. >> bret: leslie, your thoughts on her hearing today and where that stands? >> i think there were a couple of problems i saw republicans whence at, one was not just her response to snowden but completely not admitting that he is a traitor and that's how the majority of american people see him and i think the majority of people in our government and she couldn't say that she also could not answer and would not answer if she were asked to do something by the president, president trump, when it comes to foreign funding and foreign funds, that's very uncomfortable if you are looking for somebody to hold this role not just to be responsible but responsible to the role in the constitution and united states on an international level with our allies. thirdly, the elephant in the room that i don't think was talked about enough former

dictator assad from syria i think she is going to have a difficult nomination. i think you will see some republicans i agree with josh patel probably has it easier of these three. i'm shocked that i am even able to say that to be honest. >> turn to the tragedy skies in washington and the "new york post" has it on the front cover? 67 people believe dead they haven't recovered all of the bodies yet. horrors in the sky. more reporting from "the washington post tuesday night they write 24 hours before this deadly collision near reagan national airport a different regional jet coming in for a landing had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path. the investigation, josh, is still ongoing. but that tells a signal that,

you know, there may be pointing one direction here. >> yeah, look there has been a lot of partisan finger pointing. both sides we need to gather the facts. a still a lot of reporting. there is a real worry there so many flights around a fairly small airport like reagan national airport. this is something that a lot of local lawmakers have been warning about for some time we're going to look at the staffing levels of the faa and trump brought up dei. i'm not sure if that's the biggest issue that will come into play. the issue may be level of traffic in a fairly small airport. >> bret: and be able to handle all of that together at the same time. panel, thanks so much. ♪ >> bret: finally tonight a salute. >> i want to thank the first responders who acted quickly

last night. went towards danger. went into a very frigid river and worked throughout the night. >> bret: d.c.'s mayor muriel bowser we want to take a moment to recognize the tireless and heroic efforts of the first responders to last night's tragedy on the potomac river. 300 first responders were on scene dealing with those frigid waters, desperately searching for signs of life and now remains. when tragedy struck, they answered the call. so a salute to you all. tomorrow on "special report," president trump's designated special envoy for ukraine in russia retired army lt. general keith kellogg on the trump administration approach going forward to the war in ukraine. he's going to speak to the president about that. he will speak to us. you can see that here on "special report." thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. as always. we have got you covered, fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. "the washingto